thank you for the article. It is gr8 motivational.
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@denmarkguy

HF 19 will help me grow my Steem power, Steem is not about making money rather being part of something that has huge potential

Power up I say

Yeah, I couldn't agree more if you focus on making good content them people will find it and appreciate it. If you focus on making money it will be obvious and disregarded.

I am more concerned with the leveling of the playing field in terms of voting power that I have heard about. 

I am new to social media and blogging. Steemit is my first experience of this and I am enjoying it very much but I very rarely click on the 'new' tab these days as it is generally filled with posts that I myself feel are 'money making' posts, linked videos from youtube with no more explanation than 'watch this' or such like. I still force myself to click on it now and again so that I can try to find a diamond in the rough but it is getting harder I fear.

We ofcourse all have a different view regarding what is 'quality content' and 'adding value' so I suppose we will have to see where the platform ends up but I think you are absolutely right in saying that we reap what we sew.

Thanks for another thoughtful and helpful post @denmarkguy!

The key takeaway is we should be here to get rewarded for creative efforts or to accept constructive criticism of our argument. Gaming the system is a short term gain that in the end won't play out well in the long game. Great article, I'm glad @tonyr referred me to your writings.

I started out with only my original work. I was only doing one per day though, so it wasn't going too well, not too popular. I was seeing other people make posts about news stories, popular following, and earning more, so I said I could do that but more info and on the tings I liked. I tried that and it ended up working. The light fluff is how I got more popular (tech, health, and psych news), compared to my more serious original work, hard thinking lol. I put out the content, lower quality based on news sites, or my own work of higher quality info, and the earnings vary, there is no set return for a certain type of post at least for me.

Money is the overriding general drive for behavior on the platform. Curation would change if there was no return earning. People would just curate content for content and really represent what they liked.

A wonderful post, thank you for sharing wise thoughts, I resteemed it!

I just following the system 

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Content and crossed fingers is my strategy.

I have come to appreciate your posts over the last few days.  I personally joined SteemIt a few days ago in order to share the work I have created over the years (photography, art, sculptures, etc) on a platform that has done a good job maintaining a community feel to it. It took me a while to finally join after watching the site the last few months. I never felt any other social media sites were a good fit for me and never joined any of them - none of them.

Getting rewarded for sharing that content with others interested in it is great, but I have seen too many pages/post clogging up the new feed with random stuff copy/pasted from around the internet with little to no "content value" at all. It's like pulling over the mentality of tumbler, knowing people will vote up anything and make them some quick money. But I don't give them my time. Hopefully they won't have a long term impact on the positive goals and image here,

Interesting view on the subject, I like your thoughts on the matter. I mostly focus on meeting my own standards with regards to weather or not I feel good about what I've contributed. If that happens, I don't really care what the rewards turn out to be or if I get any at all. I do get pleasantly surprised from time to time and that is nice but I never count on it. Don't think that much will change with HF19 although it would be nice to see newcomers vote's actually change the value of a fresh post, at least for their first 10 votes. If that happens at all... Curious to see how stingy people get with their upvotes after this. :)

I was thinking about it from the other way around. With only 10 votes at full power each day, what can I do to keep rewarding the many good posts and comments that I read? And I do see so many good authors, making good and unique content, that do not get rewarded. Even while seeing mediocre posts that get giant payouts. And speculation about complex things is so easy to do -- look at what attention we pay to sports events, lol. So the new game will begin tomorrow. We will see what happens and then adjust! :

Whenever I do something with the intention of making money, my thinking process and efforts feel forced. Like I am a slave to materialistic hierarchy. I feel doing what I want to and say what I feel the need to say, gives me peace and sense of mind that, I am free and not bound by shackles in my mind of earning that dollar or cent. 
I wanna do and say what I wanna do and say. 
Simple. 
(Hope you can understand it, hehe..)

I think that  vote harvesting bots are a big problem..for the very reasons you mentioned.
they _game_ the system.

Could someone link me to a post about what HF19 actually is? I'm a fairly new minnow in the pond and I'm trying to get a grip on what's actually happening tomorrow morning

Great Post.

It is indeed the responsibility of the seasoned users to express the value and education process effectively.

This is such a cool experiment in so many ways. It's fascinating how our effecitvieness as a collective here as 'steemit' is a result of our collective effectiveness and sharing the messages...the education...the vision, the potential here.

The depth of greatness here is indeed profoundly extraordinary.

Thanks @denmarkguy for pouring your heart in here...and in all your posts.

Truly world-class!